the defense minister of israel spoke of the imminent fall of bashar al-assad, and gave his response to reports that israeli jets bombed targets inside syria. >> i cannot say anything about what happened in syria several days ago, but they keep telling us that frankly that we said when we face some think we need it, we say we don't think they should be allowed to bring advanced weapons systems into lebanon on. >> the iranian foreign minister said he held face-to-face talks with syrian opposition on saturday. about the number of one-on-one meetings with key players including u.s. vice president, joe biden. the syrian opposition leader also said that with the russian foreign minister and was invited to moscow for four -- for further talks. it's being seen as representing the faintest sign of progress toward easing the civil war. there appears to be progress on the iranian nuclear issue but buried responding to joe biden pasquale to return to negotiation, is run said it had no red line and was willing to talk. >> if we are willing for negotiation, we have to make sure this time, and this i